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...says. "If I stayed longer, I would have become like a kid who didn't leave home when he should have. I'd start thinking, 'My parents suck,' when the truth is really, 'No, you should have gotten a job.'" He has one now, starring in the funniest new sitcom of the spring, Andy Richter Controls the Universe (Fox, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), which not only shows that Richter has not lost his mind but also invites you inside his head...
...March 13 bill will also pair Todd Bridges of Diff'rent Strokes against rapper Vanilla Ice, as well as Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family against The Brady Bunch's Barry Williams. If the show expands into a series, it should be a great way to keep former sitcom stars busy between reunion shows...
...inspired by Los Angeles' Rampart police scandal. But it asks a question that is all too relevant in the days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
...probably closer to the hearts of the millions of us who grew up alongside the Keaton children. The Keatons entered our homes 20 years ago as the MTV generation entered the world. Yet the Keatons were by no means a stereotypical yuppie family, let alone a typical sitcom family. The Keaton parents were hippies to the bone—Elyse a folk-singing flower girl and Steven a draft-dodging pacifist. To their dismay, they birthed four yuppies-to-be, led by one Alex P. Keaton, a card-carrying Young Republican with a blazer over his shoulder, a tie around...
...connection between the Bunkers and the Keatons begs the question of whether their descendants currently exist on television. While social issues including teen pregnancy, drug addiction and divorce have become the province of family melodramas like “Seventh Heaven,” the generation-gap sitcom has disappeared as controversies like the Vietnam War have been replaced by less-impassioned debates over stem cells and soft money. The sitcom legacy of “Family Ties” lives on in other precocious TV youngsters, most prominently Lisa Simpson and Malcolm Wilkerson of “Malcolm...